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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
Explore more quotes by Jon Fishman

"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"

"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."

"People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated."

"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."

"When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems."

"You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat."

"Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things."

"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."
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